George Washington

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Cosimo, Inc., Jan 1, 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 372 pages
"George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twenty-eighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes us on a journey from a look at Washington's times to his Virginia breeding to his life in colonial America. Wilson looks at how these factors shaped the man who would lead the nation in its fight for independence and into its first years as a new nation. This is an insightful look into our nation's early history by a man who would play a key part in it more than one hundred years later.
 

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CHAP PAGE I IN WASHINGTONS DAY
3
A VIRGINIAN BREEDING
45
COLONEL WASHINGTON
69
MOUNT VERNON DAYS
99
THE HEAT OF POLITICS
117
PILOTING A REVOLUTION
153
GENERAL WASHINGTON
179
THE STRESS OF VICTORY
213
FIRST IN PEACE
233
THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
265
INDEX
315
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